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That's being polite.

 

Which has excellent facilities...

 

Not heard that one TBH, but nothing would shock me

 

Probably come from the same place he got the Bogle rumour

 

Probably more feasible though

 

IT'S A SCHOOL!!!

Don't dress it up...IT'S A SCHOOL!

 

Hope you dont mind me sharing this but as part of my coaching we do a team 'assessment sheet', and using this format here is my striker assessment form for City and it highlights why I think we need to move to improve this area as soon as possible. We use a simple marking system (NO/UNLIKELY/AVERAGE/PROBABLY/YES) and for our forward players we look at 6 points to assess where we are and I have indicated my own view on each one:
1) do we have a natural/20 a season goalscorer in the team - NO
2) do we have the necessary physicality up front - PROBABLY
3) do we have the height/areal threat up front - PROBABLY
4) do we have the necessary pace/mobility up front - UNLIKELY
5) do we have the instinct/movement up front - AVERAGE
6) do we have alternatives up front - NO
(there is one other point we use as well, do we have the right characters but without knowing the players first hand it is difficult and unfair to include)

We would always like to have 3 to 4 answers in the PROBABLY/YES category (obviously 6 would be ideal but hardly ever achieved) So using this I currently rate us as a 2 which is why improving are striking options is so important - you may not agree with my marks (sorry always use that phrase as I also work in a school!) but in my opinion it is a fair assessment as to where we currently are. For me it is important because the first couple of games have bought us a bit of time (as Stuart himself says) but we are short in some of the key attributes for a forward line and if (hope its not the case) we have a couple of bad results to start with in the league I know patience will wear thin as we have taken so long to act in this area. We need an extra (and different) option in our striking potential, whatever results we achieve, because I dont think we can change a match from the bench - the current strengths we have are very 'samey'.

Anyway, thats enough bollocks from me for one night

 

One of the most expensive fee paying schools around the area, where parents pay top money for the best education that includes various sports.
There was never a problem until Mr I'm a Championship manager used it as one of his excuses not to take the job, looks like Rahic wasn't the only one to take the bait.

 

Funny.

 

Edited for accuracy

 

So in other words, a long way around of saying what we fans already know, we are short of a striker with pace who knows where the onion bag is!

 

Not Bradford Grammar is it? Its a poor man's private school...Behave mate.

Nowhere near to top school in Yorkshire. Anyway, It's SCHOOL!!!

As, a club we should own our own training ground. Rahic was a problem, Rupp doesn't care..Both as bad as each other!

 

Could you sell one of your car wash plots to the club?

 

Well can't imagine us getting into the Prem League then..wait a minute tho..didn't we..?

 

It ain’t cheap, believe you me.

it is rated very highly too.

 

Did we own our training ground when we got to the premier league?

 

Is that true?

Didn't Taylor (or was it Parkinson?) try to move the training ground away from there but shamefully couldn't find a suitable spot in Bradford.

I know that a lot of the players from last time we were in league 2 were quite critical off it but that was a pretty long time ago anyway.

 

Rochdale to sign Stephen Humphreys. Think he was mentioned earlier in thread

 

Doesn't matter if it's not cheap..It's not great.

Either way, it's a school and a we are football club..we should own our own training ground..End of.

 

As I said Idle - enough bollocks from me for one night! Was just trying to put a bit of analysis to the situation